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Position Statements

The NZMA advocates on behalf of doctors and patients on many important issues in medicine. We develop policy positions and submissions on medical, political, medico-legal and public health issues. Policies and position statements are available below. 


  • Jan 2019

    Health and Climate Change

  • Aug 2018

    Direct-to-Consumer Laboratory Testing

  • Jun 2018

    Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines

  • Nov 2017

    Medicinal cannabis

  • Sep 2017

    Health as an investment

  • Jul 2017

    Smokefree 2025 New Zealand

  • Feb 2017

    Health and international agreements on trade

  • Dec 2016

    Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages

  • Aug 2015

    Health and climate change

    This replaces the earlier statement of 2010.

  • Jul 2015

    Third-party funding arrangements

  • Jul 2015

    Clinical academic career pathways in medicine

  • May 2015

    Reducing alcohol-related harm

  • Mar 2015

    The procurement of non-clinical goods and services

  • Mar 2015

    Community Water Fluoridation

  • Jul 2014

    Tackling Obesity: NZMA policy briefing

  • Feb 2014

    Telehealth and remote consultation

    This statement replaces the earlier Telehealth statement of 2008

  • Oct 2013

    Doctors' health, wellbeing and vitality

  • Sep 2013

    Proposed guidelines for Physician Assistant programme

  • Jul 2013

    Non-medical prescribing

  • Feb 2013

    Principles of health workforce redesign

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